J Simon Rofe
Biographic Data
| ID | 1900582 |
|---|---|
| NAME | J Simon Rofe |
| GIVEN NAMES | J Simon |
| FAMILY NAME | Rofe |
| SIGNATURE | ROFE J S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of London |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9423-6644 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 21 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Human rights and the olympics: From an ideological paradox to a new anti-corruption legacy
This article aims to explore the evolution of the debates surrounding human rights in the discourse(s) of major sporting events (MSEs), particularly the Olympics. The paper will first analyse the western-centric origins of the “universality” of the Olympic philosophy and how it affected the protection and promotion of human rights, as well as addressing practical challenges or limitations faced. It will then focus on unpacking the elements of spo…
Unofficial peace diplomacy: Private peace entrepreneurs in conflict resolution processes
Can private citizens serve as self-appointed peacemakers and influence diplomatic relations between parties to a conflict? The book analyzes the international phenomenon of private peace entrepreneurs (PPEs) – private citizens with no official authority who initiate channels of communication with official representatives from the other side of a conflict in order to promote a conflict resolution process. It combines theoretical discussion with hi…
Soft Power Polls and the Fate of Liberal Democracy
Since entering mainstream discourse, the term “soft power” has become more popular than ever. The last ten years has seen the emergence of a number of international polls that rank countries based on their soft power. These rankings have not just coincided with the rise in significance of soft power; they have actively shaped how the term is used and understood. Yet they remain unexamined. This article critically analyzes two of these polls: the …
Scholarship and Sports Diplomacy: The Cases of Japan and the United Kingdom
This article explores scholarship regarding diplomatic processes and actors engaged in recent international sport events hosted by the United Kingdom and Japan. The article points to the range of actors involved, focusing on organizing committees, and assesses the effectiveness of sports diplomacy at a range of levels that go beyond a focus on the state. It uses international sport events documentation, global media archives, and public and priva…
Israelpolitik: German–Israeli relations, 1949–69
The rapprochement between Germany and Israel in the aftermath of the Holocaust is one of the most striking political developments of the twentieth century. German Chancellor Angela Merkel recently referred to it as a 'miracle'. But how did this 'miracle' come about? Drawing upon sources from both sides of the Iron Curtain and of the Arab–Israeli conflict, Lorena De Vita traces the contradictions and dilemmas that shaped the making of German–Israe…
Diplomatic Tenses: A Social Evolutionary Perspective on Diplomacy
Precarious Equilibrium: Human Rights and détente in Jimmy Carter's Soviet Policy
The Untold Story of Fifa’s Diplomacy and the 1966 World Cup: North Korea, Africa and Sir Stanley Rous
The article addresses the diplomacy practiced by Sir Stanley Rous, Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) president (1961–1974), and the international history of Democratic People’s Republic of Korea involvement in, and the boycott by African nations of, the 1966 World Cup in light of a number of newly available primary sources. The new materials reveal first, Rous’s diplomatic practice and the tension between formal and informa…
The UN and the Postwar Global Order: Dumbarton Oaks in Historical Perspective after 75 Years
The history of 'Dumbarton Oaks' is overshadowed in the formation of the postwar order, most notably by the San Francisco conference of April 1945 that gave birth to the United Nations Organisation.Yet in a number of important ways it was the Dumbarton Oaks conference, or the "Washington Conversations on International Peace and Security Organization" to give it its full and formal title, that fundamentally shaped a "postwar international organisat…
Sport and diplomacy: Games within games
Global Diplomacy: Theories, Types, and Models
Sport and Diplomacy: A Global Diplomacy Framework
The actors, or "players," involved in the transactions of diplomacy occasioned by sport are manifold. In the case of the world's "global game"—association football—they include but are not limited to individual footballers, football clubs, national leagues, national associations, football's international governance structures, multi-national sponsors, and numerous hangers on. Importantly for this analysis, such a panoply of actors creates an arch…
Prologue: Diplomacy and Sport
In attending the London Olympiad of 2012, competitors and visitors at each venue were greeted with four flags; from left to right, they were the International Olympic flagand the International Paralympic flag subsequentlythe flags of the United Nations [UN] and the London Olympic Organising Committee [LOCOG], and the British Union Jack. 1These flags represent polities with a number of identities, but their most straightforward were as the foremos…
Roosevelt's lost alliances: How personal politics helped start the cold war
The Embassy in Grosvenor Square
Covering the period 1938 to 2008, The Embassy in Grosvenor Square explores the role of the embassy in the Anglo-American 'special relationship', both in terms of transatlantic affairs and issues of in
Pre-war Post-war Planning: The Phoney War, the Roosevelt Administration, and the Case of the Advisory Committee on Problems of Foreign Relations
The Advisory Committee on Problems of Foreign Relations (ACPFR) of Franklin D. Roosevelt's State Department first met in late December 1939 and operated until early Summer 1940. Its previously overlooked deliberations, chaired by the dynamic Under-Secretary of State Sumner Welles, are important in three related areas. First, the ACPFR was an early marker of the Administration's later post-war planning, notably the Advisory Committee on Postwar Fo…
Internationalists in Isolationist times’ – Theodore and Franklin Roosevelt and a Rooseveltian Maxim
Isolationism and internationalism in transatlantic affairs
The ‘IR Model’: A Schema for Pedagogic Design and Development in International Relations Distance Learning Programmes
This article looks at the design, development and delivery of the IR Model. The IR Model brings together best-practice in learning design and appreciation of e-learning in producing a distance learning programme in International Relations delivered 100 per cent online via a Virtual Learning Environment (Blackboard). The results of the IR Model are notable increases in student attainment over campus-based counterparts and an enhanced student exper…
Under the Influence of Mahan”: Theodore and Franklin Roosevelt and their Understanding of American National Interest
This article explores links in the grand strategic outlook of Theodore Roosevelt and Franklin Roosevelt, with particular reference to the influence upon both men of Admiral Alfred Thayer Mahan. It focuses upon an episode during Franklin Roosevelt's tenure as Assistant Secretary of the Navy, when he was in direct correspondence with both Theodore and Mahan on matters of grand strategy and naval policy. The paper argues that Theodore Roosevelt prov…
Franklin Roosevelt’s Foreign Policy and the Welles Mission
A new and original analysis of the mission undertaken by FDR's Secretary of State during the Phoney War, Rofe's work explains the motivations and goals of Roosevelt through an analysis of the presiden
Franklin Roosevelt's Foreign Policy and the Welles Mission
"This work presents an analysis of the mission undertaken by Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles to Europe on behalf of President Roosevelt in February-March 1940. Roosevelt himself reckoned the mission had only "one chance in a thousand" of succeeding in influencing the course of the war in Europe, and yet he pressed ahead. Explaining the motivations and objectives of the President, J. Simon Rofe utilizes the Welles mission to further illumin…
Sport and Diplomacy: A Global Diplomacy Framework
The actors, or "players," involved in the transactions of diplomacy occasioned by sport are manifold. In the case of the world's "global game"—association football—they include but are not limited to individual footballers, football clubs, national leagues, national associations, football's international governance structures, multi-national sponsors, and numerous hangers on. Importantly for this analysis, such a panoply of actors creates an arch…
The Untold Story of Fifa’s Diplomacy and the 1966 World Cup: North Korea, Africa and Sir Stanley Rous
The article addresses the diplomacy practiced by Sir Stanley Rous, Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) president (1961–1974), and the international history of Democratic People’s Republic of Korea involvement in, and the boycott by African nations of, the 1966 World Cup in light of a number of newly available primary sources. The new materials reveal first, Rous’s diplomatic practice and the tension between formal and informa…
Prologue: Diplomacy and Sport
In attending the London Olympiad of 2012, competitors and visitors at each venue were greeted with four flags; from left to right, they were the International Olympic flagand the International Paralympic flag subsequentlythe flags of the United Nations [UN] and the London Olympic Organising Committee [LOCOG], and the British Union Jack. 1These flags represent polities with a number of identities, but their most straightforward were as the foremos…
Pre-war Post-war Planning: The Phoney War, the Roosevelt Administration, and the Case of the Advisory Committee on Problems of Foreign Relations
The Advisory Committee on Problems of Foreign Relations (ACPFR) of Franklin D. Roosevelt's State Department first met in late December 1939 and operated until early Summer 1940. Its previously overlooked deliberations, chaired by the dynamic Under-Secretary of State Sumner Welles, are important in three related areas. First, the ACPFR was an early marker of the Administration's later post-war planning, notably the Advisory Committee on Postwar Fo…
Under the Influence of Mahan”: Theodore and Franklin Roosevelt and their Understanding of American National Interest
This article explores links in the grand strategic outlook of Theodore Roosevelt and Franklin Roosevelt, with particular reference to the influence upon both men of Admiral Alfred Thayer Mahan. It focuses upon an episode during Franklin Roosevelt's tenure as Assistant Secretary of the Navy, when he was in direct correspondence with both Theodore and Mahan on matters of grand strategy and naval policy. The paper argues that Theodore Roosevelt prov…
Franklin Roosevelt’s Foreign Policy and the Welles Mission
A new and original analysis of the mission undertaken by FDR's Secretary of State during the Phoney War, Rofe's work explains the motivations and goals of Roosevelt through an analysis of the presiden
Franklin Roosevelt's Foreign Policy and the Welles Mission
"This work presents an analysis of the mission undertaken by Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles to Europe on behalf of President Roosevelt in February-March 1940. Roosevelt himself reckoned the mission had only "one chance in a thousand" of succeeding in influencing the course of the war in Europe, and yet he pressed ahead. Explaining the motivations and objectives of the President, J. Simon Rofe utilizes the Welles mission to further illumin…
Under the Influence of Mahan”: Theodore and Franklin Roosevelt and their Understanding of American National Interest
This article explores links in the grand strategic outlook of Theodore Roosevelt and Franklin Roosevelt, with particular reference to the influence upon both men of Admiral Alfred Thayer Mahan. It focuses upon an episode during Franklin Roosevelt's tenure as Assistant Secretary of the Navy, when he was in direct correspondence with both Theodore and Mahan on matters of grand strategy and naval policy. The paper argues that Theodore Roosevelt prov…
The ‘IR Model’: A Schema for Pedagogic Design and Development in International Relations Distance Learning Programmes
This article looks at the design, development and delivery of the IR Model. The IR Model brings together best-practice in learning design and appreciation of e-learning in producing a distance learning programme in International Relations delivered 100 per cent online via a Virtual Learning Environment (Blackboard). The results of the IR Model are notable increases in student attainment over campus-based counterparts and an enhanced student exper…
Internationalists in Isolationist times’ – Theodore and Franklin Roosevelt and a Rooseveltian Maxim
Isolationism and internationalism in transatlantic affairs
The Embassy in Grosvenor Square
Covering the period 1938 to 2008, The Embassy in Grosvenor Square explores the role of the embassy in the Anglo-American 'special relationship', both in terms of transatlantic affairs and issues of in
Pre-war Post-war Planning: The Phoney War, the Roosevelt Administration, and the Case of the Advisory Committee on Problems of Foreign Relations
The Advisory Committee on Problems of Foreign Relations (ACPFR) of Franklin D. Roosevelt's State Department first met in late December 1939 and operated until early Summer 1940. Its previously overlooked deliberations, chaired by the dynamic Under-Secretary of State Sumner Welles, are important in three related areas. First, the ACPFR was an early marker of the Administration's later post-war planning, notably the Advisory Committee on Postwar Fo…
Roosevelt's lost alliances: How personal politics helped start the cold war
Sport and Diplomacy: A Global Diplomacy Framework
The actors, or "players," involved in the transactions of diplomacy occasioned by sport are manifold. In the case of the world's "global game"—association football—they include but are not limited to individual footballers, football clubs, national leagues, national associations, football's international governance structures, multi-national sponsors, and numerous hangers on. Importantly for this analysis, such a panoply of actors creates an arch…
Prologue: Diplomacy and Sport
In attending the London Olympiad of 2012, competitors and visitors at each venue were greeted with four flags; from left to right, they were the International Olympic flagand the International Paralympic flag subsequentlythe flags of the United Nations [UN] and the London Olympic Organising Committee [LOCOG], and the British Union Jack. 1These flags represent polities with a number of identities, but their most straightforward were as the foremos…
Sport and diplomacy: Games within games
Global Diplomacy: Theories, Types, and Models
The Untold Story of Fifa’s Diplomacy and the 1966 World Cup: North Korea, Africa and Sir Stanley Rous
The article addresses the diplomacy practiced by Sir Stanley Rous, Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) president (1961–1974), and the international history of Democratic People’s Republic of Korea involvement in, and the boycott by African nations of, the 1966 World Cup in light of a number of newly available primary sources. The new materials reveal first, Rous’s diplomatic practice and the tension between formal and informa…
The UN and the Postwar Global Order: Dumbarton Oaks in Historical Perspective after 75 Years
The history of 'Dumbarton Oaks' is overshadowed in the formation of the postwar order, most notably by the San Francisco conference of April 1945 that gave birth to the United Nations Organisation.Yet in a number of important ways it was the Dumbarton Oaks conference, or the "Washington Conversations on International Peace and Security Organization" to give it its full and formal title, that fundamentally shaped a "postwar international organisat…
Israelpolitik: German–Israeli relations, 1949–69
The rapprochement between Germany and Israel in the aftermath of the Holocaust is one of the most striking political developments of the twentieth century. German Chancellor Angela Merkel recently referred to it as a 'miracle'. But how did this 'miracle' come about? Drawing upon sources from both sides of the Iron Curtain and of the Arab–Israeli conflict, Lorena De Vita traces the contradictions and dilemmas that shaped the making of German–Israe…
Diplomatic Tenses: A Social Evolutionary Perspective on Diplomacy
Precarious Equilibrium: Human Rights and détente in Jimmy Carter's Soviet Policy
Scholarship and Sports Diplomacy: The Cases of Japan and the United Kingdom
This article explores scholarship regarding diplomatic processes and actors engaged in recent international sport events hosted by the United Kingdom and Japan. The article points to the range of actors involved, focusing on organizing committees, and assesses the effectiveness of sports diplomacy at a range of levels that go beyond a focus on the state. It uses international sport events documentation, global media archives, and public and priva…
Unofficial peace diplomacy: Private peace entrepreneurs in conflict resolution processes
Can private citizens serve as self-appointed peacemakers and influence diplomatic relations between parties to a conflict? The book analyzes the international phenomenon of private peace entrepreneurs (PPEs) – private citizens with no official authority who initiate channels of communication with official representatives from the other side of a conflict in order to promote a conflict resolution process. It combines theoretical discussion with hi…
Soft Power Polls and the Fate of Liberal Democracy
Since entering mainstream discourse, the term “soft power” has become more popular than ever. The last ten years has seen the emergence of a number of international polls that rank countries based on their soft power. These rankings have not just coincided with the rise in significance of soft power; they have actively shaped how the term is used and understood. Yet they remain unexamined. This article critically analyzes two of these polls: the …
Human rights and the olympics: From an ideological paradox to a new anti-corruption legacy
This article aims to explore the evolution of the debates surrounding human rights in the discourse(s) of major sporting events (MSEs), particularly the Olympics. The paper will first analyse the western-centric origins of the “universality” of the Olympic philosophy and how it affected the protection and promotion of human rights, as well as addressing practical challenges or limitations faced. It will then focus on unpacking the elements of spo…
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